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Education

•Ph.D. in Architecture and Design Research, Virginia Tech - 2024

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•Masters in Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona – 2013.



•B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering, University of Jordan –  2008.

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Professional Experiences

• Assistant Professor at Clemson University,  Landscape Architecture Program, School of Architecture. (2024-current)

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• Co-instructor, Graduate assistant & Teaching Assistant at Virginia Tech. (2020-2024).

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• Visiting Lecturer at Rhein-Main HS, Wiesbaden, Germany, Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering. (Fall 2016)

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• Full-time lecturer at the German Jordanian University, School of Architecture and the Built Environment. (2013 - 2020).

 

• Senior landscape architect & Founder of KawtharRayyan for Landscape Architecture in Amman, Jordan (2014-2024)

 

• Landscape Consultant at HS GROUP (Hani Sahooly consultants),  working on the masterplan of Sana'a city, and the Slemani masterplan (2014-2016).

 

• Part-time Teacher Assistant at the German Jordanian University,

September 2010- July 2011



• Junior Architect at TAHHAN&BUSHNAQ Architecture firm 

July 2008 – August 2011



• Intern Architect at BELAL HAMMAD Architecture Office, 

June 2007 – August 2007

 

 

Kawthar Alrayyan

Awards & scholarships

• STEM & Industry funding Support for the 2025-26 (GRA FUNDED) ($25000), Clemson University

 

• Graduate Research and Development Fund (GRDP) award ($850), Virginia Tech.

 

• Travel Fund Program (TFP) Awards ($1500), Virginia Tech.

 

• Landscape Architecture Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Architecture and Design, Virginia Tech. 

 

• 2023 Future Professoriate Global Perspectives Program, in Switzerland, Virginia Tech.

 

• Travel Fund Program (TFP) Awards ($1500), Virginia Tech.

 

• Full Ph.D. Studies Scholarship, College of Architecture and Built Environment, German Jordanian University.

 

• Faculty Grant (Train the trainer program) (1800 euros)

GJU & at Rhein-Main HS, Wiesbaden, Germany.

 

• Faculty Research Grant (2700 euros), DAAD, research stays at Dortmund University, Germany.

 

• Highest GPA in the Master of Landscape Architecture

University of Arizona

 

• winning the first prize in the ABA portfolio competition at the University of Arizona in 2012. 



• winning the 2012 Grad Student Design Excellence, Best 2nd Year project student choice.



• The German Jordanian full scholarship to pursue my graduate studies at the University of Arizona in 2011.



• The Michael Wade Memorial Scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year, from the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Arizona.

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published work

  • Alrayyan, K. (forthcoming). Parkification As Policy Innovation: Transforming Post-Industrial Landscapes in Jordan. CELA 2025 Portland.

  • Alrayyan, K. (2025). Landscape Transformation of Post-Industrial Sites: Parkification as a Revitalization Approach in Jordan. In Sustainable Landscape Planning and Natural Resources Management, Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI) series. Springer Nature.

  • Abukhalaf, A. H. I., Okhai, R., Naser, A. Y., & Alrayyan, K. (2025). Studying the Impact of Multiple Behavioral Variables on Hurricane Preparedness Behaviors Among Employees at Institution of Higher Education in Florida. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105752.

  • Alrayyan, K. (2025). Parkification of Post-Industrial Sites: A Catalyst for Greenway Development in Ruseifa, Jordan. In Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning (Vol. 8, No. 1). University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/fabos.2386

  • Okour, Y., Alrayyan, K. and Zidan, R. (2024). "A spatial scientometric analysis of urban planning publications from 2010–2020: geographic disparities in urban planning knowledge production", Open House International, Vol. 50 No. 2, pp. 369-391. https://doi.org/10.1108/OHI-12-2023-0297

  • Ha, J., Alrayyan, K. & Alam, M. L. (2024). Virtual reality technology for learning detailed design in landscape architecture. Discover Education, 3(1), 39

  • Alrayyan, K. & Clements, T. (2022). Genealogy of cultural landscape definitions: a comparative review of scholarly and institutional definitions. Landscape Research Record, (11), 140-155.

  • Alrayyan, K., Hamarneh, C., & Abu-Jaber, N. (2022), Fortified in Time: An Adaptive Reuse of Wadi Rum Fort. Chapter 42, in: Cultural Heritage: At the Intersection of the Humanities and the Sciences, ed. Hani Hayajneh, Archäologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft Bd. 7, Berlin, pp. 623-636.

  • Alrayyan, K., Hamarneh, C., Sukkar, H., Ghaith, A., & Abu-Jaber, N. (2019). From Abandoned Mines to A Labyrinth of Knowledge: A Conceptual Design for A Geoheritage Park Museum in Jordan. Geoheritage, 11, 257-270.

  • Tawil, M., Utku, Y., Alrayyan, K., & Reicher, C. (2019). Revierparks As an Integrated Green Network in Germany: An Option for Amman?. Plos one, 14(12), e0226842.

Skills & Proficiencies

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
 

● REVIT

●Photoshop

● Auto CAD ( 2-D & 3-D )

● 3D Max
● VRAY Render 

● sketch up

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